Use Case Contracts in the Thames Valley

Use Cases
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Use Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Use Case over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 106 86
Rank change year-on-year +21 -20 +69
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Use Case 27 17 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.62% 0.76% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.90% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 38
10th Percentile £409 £363 £450
25th Percentile £426 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £519 £634
90th Percentile £730 £581 £679
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Use Case falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,889 2,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.67% 84.59% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,073 1,706
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.10% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 104 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.12 £25.12 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £57.19 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.03% +14.39% +153.16%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.53 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +92.31%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in the Thames Valley

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in the Thames Valley

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Use Case

Use Case
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +25 20 £513 +10.81% 52
Buckinghamshire +7 6 £425 -17.07% 6
Oxfordshire -10 1 - - 13
Use Case
South East

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Appian
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) ChatGPT
3 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.70%) Textract
4 1 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Big Data
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) GIS
4 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.70%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.70%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (25.93%) Legal
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Developer
6 1 (3.70%) GIS Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Mainframe Support
6 1 (3.70%) SOC Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Test Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) NumPy
1 8 (29.63%) Pandas
1 8 (29.63%) scikit-learn
2 4 (14.81%) Hugging Face
2 4 (14.81%) PyTorch
3 3 (11.11%) Prophet
4 2 (7.41%) Web Services
5 1 (3.70%) Faiss
5 1 (3.70%) Jinja
5 1 (3.70%) JSON
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
5 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
5 1 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 10 (37.04%) Machine Learning
2 10 (37.04%) Visualisation
3 9 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 9 (33.33%) Data Science
3 9 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (33.33%) LLM
4 8 (29.63%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (29.63%) Scrum
5 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 6 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (18.52%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (18.52%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (18.52%) Sentiment Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (18.52%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) COBOL
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) CISM
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.70%) GCED
4 1 (3.70%) GCIA
4 1 (3.70%) PhD
4 1 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GDPR
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Salesforce
2 6 (22.22%) OpenAI
3 3 (11.11%) Sage
4 2 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Conga
5 1 (3.70%) ESRI
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) Veracode